{"id":95,"date":"2012-10-08T07:35:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T11:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/traveler\/?p=95"},"modified":"2012-10-08T07:35:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T11:35:21","slug":"aspergers-no-more-autism-wins-in-the-lexical-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/traveler\/2012\/10\/08\/aspergers-no-more-autism-wins-in-the-lexical-merger\/","title":{"rendered":"Asperger&#8217;s No More, Autism Wins in the Lexical Merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of May 2013, a new definition of autism will be used by scientists in order to more precisely diagnose kids with the brain disorder. As a result, the diagnosis of Asperger&#8217;s syndrome, considered a &#8220;higher functioning&#8221; form of autism, will disappear. This is a win for all people involved in the cause of educating, treating, and creating awareness of autism. On a high level the terms become simpler to communicate, while simultaneously freeing medical practitioners from the binding division that Asperger&#8217;s caused. &#8220;There was so much confusion of who had Asperger&#8217;s and who didn&#8217;t. We were also concerned that there were kids being denied services because Asperger&#8217;s sounds like a better diagnosis.&#8221; said Dr. Catherine Lord, director of the Center for Autism and the Developing Brain. There is no biological or genetic reason why Asperger&#8217;s should be separated on its own. The intent is to ensure that people with Asperger&#8217;s receive the same needed interventions and services as those with an autism diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>Side note: Also being swallowed up into the autism spectrum is Pervasive Developmental Disorder, a term used to classify some developmental issues, including the inability to socialize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of May 2013, a new definition of autism will be used by scientists in order to more precisely diagnose kids with the brain disorder. As a result, the diagnosis of Asperger&#8217;s syndrome, considered a &#8220;higher functioning&#8221; form of autism, will disappear. This is a win for all people involved in the cause of educating, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4486,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2972,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autism","category-education"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/traveler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/traveler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/traveler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/traveler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/traveler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/traveler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/traveler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/traveler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/traveler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/traveler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}